Titel: | The anticipation of catastrophe |
Titelzusatz: | environmental risk in North American literature and culture |
Mitwirkende: | Mayer, Sylvia [HerausgeberIn] |
Verf.angabe: | Sylvia Mayer ... (eds.) |
Ausgabe: | 1. Aufl. |
Verlagsort: | Heidelberg |
Verlag: | Winter |
Jahr: | 2014 |
Umfang: | 227 S. |
Format: | 210 mm x 135 mm |
Gesamttitel/Reihe: | American Studies ; Vol. 247 |
Fussnoten: | Literaturangaben |
Inhalt: | The anticipation of catastrophe: Environmental risk in North American literature and culture - Introduction / Sylvia Mayer, Alexa Weik von Mossner |
| Explorations of the controversially real: Risk, the climate change novel, and the narrative of anticipation / Sylvia Mayer |
| Risk, denial and narrative form in climate change fiction: Barbara Kingsolver's 'Flight behavior' and Ilika Trojanow's 'Melting ice' / Axel Goodbody |
| 'Things we didn't see coming' - Riskscapes in climate change fiction / Antonia Mehnert |
| "These rays may be helpful or harmful": The depiction of Radium in early 20th century American newspapers / Holger Kersten |
| The stuff of fear: Emotion, ethics, and the materiality of nuclear risk in 'Silkwood' and 'The China syndrom' / Alexa Weik von Mossner |
| Nuclear risk, domestic responsibility, and the uses of comedy: Elizabeth Stuckey-French's 'The revenge of the radioactive lady' / Anna Thiemann |
| Beyond climate refugees: Nature, risk and migration in American poetry / Christine Gerhardt |
| A sense of ending - Risk, catastrophe and precarious humanity in Margaret Atwood's 'Oryx and Crake' / Karin Höpker |
| "It's theoretically possible": Disaster and risk in contemporary American film / Nicole Maruo-Schröder |
| Green gaming: Video games and environmental risk / Colin Milburn |
ISBN: | 3-8253-6334-1 |
| 978-3-8253-6334-5 |
URL: | Inhaltstext: http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=4612720&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm |
| Inhaltsverzeichnis: http://d-nb.info/1048450023/04 |
Schlagwörter: | (g)USA / (s)Literatur / (s)Kultur / (s)Umwelt <Motiv> |
| (s)Englisch / (s)Literatur / (s)Kultur / (g)Kanada / (s)Umwelt <Motiv> |
| (g)USA / (g)Kanada / (s)Umweltgefährdung |
Dokumenttyp: | Aufsatzsammlung |
Sprache: | eng |
Reproduktion: | Online-Ausg |
RVK-Notation: | HU 1691 |
K10plus-PPN: | 780981316 |
Verknüpfungen: | → Übergeordnete Aufnahme |